To work UI land, farmers say they must 'pay up or get out'

SIDNEY – Ken Thurman – everyone around here calls him Kenny – lives in the only farmstead on a stretch of road locals call the Sidney-Philo blacktop.

Just look for the green-and-yellow John Deere mailbox.

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